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Michel Roux is a legend in the culinary arts and an interview was recently featured in an Australian newspaper in which he spoke about his life and one of his most famous proteges!

Here is a quote from the article;

‘But when it comes to one of their most famous proteges, Gordon Ramsay, who Roux says spent more than two years at Le Gavroche, he feels deep disappointment. “I find [Ramsay's behaviour] appalling; totally out of place and totally unacceptable,” Roux says.

“He never behaved like that, ever, when he was with us. He was about 22 or 24 and was a very docile young man. I think it’s the media world that made him like that, to use the F-word every minute or two, and he did it. He should never have accepted, but now he is enjoying it obviously, and it’s bad news.”

Does he rate Ramsay as a chef? “That guy is not better than anyone else; he’s a good chef but certainly not one of the best we have trained, certainly not,” Roux says. “When you’ve got 5000 or 10,000 people paying to see him do a demo or talking, I’m just thinking, well, the world is mad.”

Check out the full interview here http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/executive-lifestyle/the-truth-about-gordon/story-e6frg8jo-1225827047282

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While I don’t want to spoil the contents of this interview with a person who was invited to be a judge in the final episode of the F Word (Season 5) here are some of the highlights!

The final episode took 9 hours to film!

He didn’t drop the F bomb (nor shout or swear) during that whole time!

He reveals his guilty food pleasure!

His Favourite British Food

Gordon Ramsay’s Role Models

Ok here is one spoiler – The secret ingredient to the batter to make the crispiest fish batter is…… Read more…

Cookalong Live USa will be aired on C4 Feb 5 at 9pm and contains no swearing – not because it is edited out, because Gordon Ramsay didn’t use the word during this hour-long live cooking special!

As previously reported the show features LeAnn Rimes, Alyson Hannigan, Cedric The Entertainer and Whoopi Goldberg and instead of the F Word, Gordon’s favourite word is ‘amazing’!

Enjoy if you haven’t ‘come across’ the footage already!

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Normally most of the stories that pop-up on my Gordon Ramsay Google Alert is just useless gossip. This story may well be the same, bolstered by interested in Gordon Ramsay’s wife Tana now that she is competing on ITv’s Dancing on Ice in the UK, but we thought this one was at least worth passing on.

It seems with the lower than expected ratings for the F Word, unnamed insiders are suggesting that Tana would be an appropriate co-host for Gordon. No word yet whther it will be a revamp of an existing show (F Word being the most obvious) or a brand new concept, but three different sites are running the sam estory word for word. Click here to follow the link first one I came across.

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Just as the final episode of the F Word aired (don’t worry no spoilers here), Channel 4 have announced that the have already begun voting for the best ‘unsung’ restaurant in the UK for 2010. The only difference here is that it seems to be for a new TV series, as the entry form says nothing about the F Word? In fact it states that “The best restaurants in each category may be featured on-screen in a future Channel 4 series.”  The website mention Optomen and One Potato, Two Potato (Joint production company  with Optomen and Gordon Ramsay’s – see http://www.optomen.com/onepotatotwopotato.aspx) which also hints at their being a new show.

The title of the introductory page is “Gordon Ramsay’s Best Restaurant” and then after many of the links follow to http://www.fword.tv/nominate.aspx – yet F Word Dot TV isn’t a functioning site and redirects to the Optomen page. Then the contact email is bestrestaurant2010@optomen.com

All very confusing – regardless here is the link to the initial Channel 4 page from which you can get all other links – http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/gordon-ramsay-s-best-restaurant-intro-page_p_1.html

Guess we’ll have to wait for more information – or a beter detective than me!

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